Uri Wassertzug
Viola
uriw@gwu.edu
ext. 49047
Phillips Hall B-138
Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance, University of Maryland in College Park
Master of Music in
Chamber Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Uri Wassertzug (viola, violin, chamber music) is joining the faculty
of George Washington University in fall, 2007, although he has taught
here on an interim basis before. He has previously taught at the
collegiate level at California State University, Sacramento, and at
all levels privately. He has also worked with youth orchestra violin
and viola sections in Washington DC and in California.Uri Wassertzug has appeared widely as a member of chamber music
groups and as a guest artist, including performances in New Zealand
and Alaska. He was a founding member of the Sun Quartet, which serves
on the faculty of California State University, Sacramento He appears
on CDs with both the Sun Quartet and the Empyrean Ensemble, a new-
music group.
Since 1998, Uri Wassertzug has been a member of the Washington
National Opera/ Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, and he performs
frequently as Guest Principal Violist with the National Philharmonic.
He was a member of the Sacramento Symphony for its final six years,
and has performed with many other symphonic and opera orchestras in
the United States. In the summers, he has also performed in groups
such as the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho, the International
Orchestra of Italy, and the Cabrillo Music Festival in Santa Cruz, CA.
Mr. Wassertzug earned a Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance from
the University of Maryland in College Park, and a Master of Music in
Chamber Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.